Over 100 vanity license plate requests were rejected by the Connecticut DMV from January 2022 to March 2023. Here's what you won't see on the road: ctinsider.com/projects/2023/… My latest for CT Insider

PASSION PROJECT: I decided to take a look at the race and sex of every Saturday Night Live - SNL host since the show began and found that SNL has only recently begun to incorporate women of color as hosts.

How Kyiv’s U.S.-made Patriot Interceptors shot down ultrafast Russian missiles for the first time -- graphics by Jemal R. Brinson with research by me: wsj.com/articles/u-s-p…

Commercial real estate investors find a rare bright spot in student housing near top research universities and schools in the highest-earning athletic conferences for college football. My first for The Wall Street Journal: wsj.com/articles/comme…

Read the latest installment in The Wall Street Journal's coverage of these left behind lead-sheathed cables from Peter Champelli, 花核, Susan Pulliam, Shalini Ramachandran and me here: wsj.com/articles/lead-….

Lead in the Bayou: read our interactive dive into Bayou Teche in Louisiana, where lead telecom cables cross the waterway. A little girl plays near a lead-infused pond. w/ John West, Susan Pulliam, Peter Champelli 花核 wsj.com/articles/lead-… wsj.com/articles/lead-…

In Southern Louisiana, lead cables have been abandoned in areas where residents gather & children play. A visual investigation John West 花核 Peter Champelli Shalini Ramachandran Susan Pulliam Kara Dapena adri Emma Brown Coulter Jones Dave Cole Thomas Gryta tinyurl.com/39h676fn

LEAD IN THE BAYOU -- wsj.com/articles/lead-… A big WSJ visuals collab along w/ 花核 Maureen Linke Peter Champelli Kara Dapena Emma Brown adri Amazing working with the great Rory Doyle in Louisiana on this multimedia package

CAUSTIC CABLES: a The Wall Street Journal investigation: John West Peter Champelli 花核 Shalini Ramachandran & Susan Pulliam: Louisiana’s Bayou Teche flows through a region dense with old phone cables wrapped in lead. They’re contaminating the ground and the water. wsj.com/articles/lead-… via The Wall Street Journal

a WSJ investigation found over 2,000 cables containing lead across the country -- and this bayou is particularly dense with them. we dove into what happens after telecom companies leave these cables behind: wsj.com/articles/lead-… w John West 花核 Shalini Ramachandran & Susan Pulliam

I wrote about my experience with the Data Visualization Society mentorship program and lessons learned on accessible design for Nightingale: nightingaledvs.com/dvs-mentorship…

Come for the cool Peter Champelli topper, stay to learn about how water can be formed on the moon wsj.com/science/space-…

latest for WSJ: why so many countries and companies are trying to get to the moon's south pole w/ Micah Maidenberg Aylin Woodward Brian McGill adri